‘Why Stanford Should Clone Itself’
David L. Kirp, a professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, begins an essay last month in
The New York Times with the evidence that the status quo is unfair. A 2017 study showed that at 38 colleges, including five in the Ivy League, more students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the bottom 60 percent. These hyper-rich youths are a jaw-dropping 77 times as likely to attend an Ivy League college as those whose parents’ income is in the bottom 20 percent, he writes.
He cites public universities that have responded in his opinion, appropriately to the situation. Most enterprises where demand far outstrips supply would seize the opportunity to expand, Kirp writes. A handful of public universities like Arizona State have done precisely that. Last fall, Arizona State enrolled more than 128,000 undergraduate and graduate students at campuses across the state and online. Even as
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Amid pandemic, more Maine universities move away from SAT and ACT
Dropping requirements for standardized tests by college applicants is a growing trend nationally that has been accelerated by the coronavirus.
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Nicholas Miles, 19, is a freshman at the University of New England in Biddeford, where he’s studying medical biology. He opted not to include his SAT scores with his application to UNE and is among the first classes to be admitted under a test-optional policy at the school. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
Throughout high school, Nicholas Miles built what he considered to be an impressive resume. He was the student body president for three years and served as president of the band. He was involved in several clubs and an effort to eliminate his school’s Native American mascot. He had a 3.8 grade point average.
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Past studies have revealed similar findings (although the finding on women is new), but the study s release comes at a time when many colleges are anxious for such research. Bennett, who is finishing his doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University, did not receive any outside funding for the work.
Bennett said in an interview that he saw one difference between the colleges he studied and the colleges that have just admitted their first class of test-optional students: the time they prepared for the change.
Most colleges in the past that have switched to test optional have devoted years to the process, and they have planned carefully. That can t be said about all the colleges that switched in the last year.